The pillar of fire departed. The instruments thus attuned in harmony played rapturously.
This I perceive,—to make the man and wife one, to make the village one, to make the state one, to make the empire one,—all in harmony as one instrument, cannot be done without a Central Son, a Creator to attune to. When a man is attuned to Him, and a woman is attuned to Him, they will themselves be as one. When the family and the village are attuned to Him, it is easy. Without Him harmony cannot be.
He, the Creator, then, must be first in all things, first in all places. He must be the nearest of all things, the nearest of all places. In our rites and ceremonies, He must be the All Ideal Perfection, the embodiment of a Perfect Person.—Book of Saphah.
The Story of an Ostrich
BY
JUDD ISAACS, Formerly Editor of the Yankee Blade, New England Magazine, Nickell Magazine.
The Story of an Ostrich.
A robust old ostrich, with head little bigger
Than that of some creatures of far frailer figure,
With two legs complete, and a speed very fleet,
Once caught a short peep at his feet, in the street.